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Tips from a Professional Dancer for Thriving at Summer Course: Part I
Photo © Angela Sterling When you think about the professional dancers that you see in magazines and on social media, it might be hard to [...]
Saying goodbye to Karel Cruz
At the end of the season, PNB bids a heartfelt adieu to Karel Cruz – a beloved principal dancer who has been with the Company [...]
PRINCIPAL DANCER KAREL CRUZ ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT
Karel Cruz in a photo shoot for Alexei Ratmansky's Don Quixote, photo © Angela Sterling. Cruz's 16-year career with PNB to be honored at Season [...]
Jerome Robbins’s Dances at a Gathering
Photo © Angela Sterling While Jerome Robbins is best known in popular culture for this innovative work in Broadway musicals, such as On the Town, [...]
Former DanceChance student stages PNB’s latest premiere
We’re so lucky to welcome artists from all over the world to PNB’s studios to stage ballets. Each ballet requires a stager, the artist who [...]
Q&A: Peter Boal talks Red Angels
Knowing the late choreographer Ulysses Dove created Red Angels on our Artistic Director (then a New York City Ballet principal dancer) Peter Boal, we [...]
Seeing Cues: One Flat Thing, reproduced
Complicated and mesmerizing, One Flat Thing, reproduced follows a cueing system that unfolds in a rapidly shifting network of relationships. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, the music [...]
Unpacking One Flat Thing, reproduced
Watching a complicated ballet without any prior knowledge can feel like watching the season finale of a TV show without having seen a single episode, [...]
Artistic Director’s Notebook: Swan Lake
Artistic Director's Notebook: Swan Lake by Artistic Director Peter Boal Ask anyone to name two ballets they have seen. I'm willing [...]